King and the Other Amer­ica

The Poor Peo­ple’s Cam­paign and the Quest for Eco­nomic Equal­ity Sylvie Lau­rent “A rich ac­count of the Poor Peo­ple’s Cam­paign, King and the Other Amer­ica chal­lenges com­mon un­der­stand­ings of the move­ment’s sig­nif­i­cance in the his­to­ries of race and so­cial pol­icy in the United States. Fas­ci­nat­ing.” —William P. Jones, au­thor of The March on Wash­ing­ton